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Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire

A podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures.

On each episode, host Cathy Hannabach interviews the scholars, dancers, authors, artists, and filmmakers imagining collective freedom and creating it through culture.

Nov 30, 2016

What strings are attached to the "gift of freedom" that the United States grants refugees? How can zines, punk, and tarot serve as methods and mediums for social justice work? And what do movie stars and Buddhist nuns have in common?

In episode 25 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with Mimi...


Nov 16, 2016

How can digital media transform the way we organize, teach, and relate to our bodies and the world?

In episode 24 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with guest Amanda Phillips about the politics of video game realism in an era of increasingly visible police violence, why so many marginalized...


Nov 2, 2016

How can trans people of color own their own stories? What's the right balance between depicting the systemic violence a community faces and representing the joy, pleasure, hope, and love that community produces?

In episode 23 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with guest André Pérez about his...